Fact Check

Greens Senator's claims on foreign ownership partially correct

Updated
September 23, 2013 09:19:33

John Barron from ABC Fact Check joins News Breakfast to discuss the unit's investigation into claims by Greens Senator Rachel Siewert that China or the USA would not allow foreigners to buy large areas of land.

Fast facts

In the year to June 2014, 5,204 young Australians spent time in detention centres. A further 10,846 were under community-based supervision.

The rate of Indigenous young people in detention or under community supervision in 2013-14 was 189 per 10,000, substantially higher than the rate of non-indigenous young people of 13 per 10,000.

Under the Citizenship Act of 1948, Australians with dual citizenship who serve in the armed forces of a country at war with Australia cease to be Australian citizens from the time their war service begins.